So I have had multiple blogs over the years. This one has always been my main one and the others were more just venting grounds for me. Anyway, I found one on a post that I wrote on June 9, 2010 and I felt like it was pretty good so I wanted to share it. I have no idea where I got it, what I was thinking at the time or anything else. Does anyone else do that when they go back and read blog posts? I do all.the.time. Anyway, going back in time to 2010….
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Why do we (and when I say we I mean me but I really think, hope, I am not the only one who does this) spend so much time comparing our lives to those of the people around us? I mean why am I looking at the person down the street and comparing my life to their life? The things they do, when they do them and how they do them? Am I not my own person? Are we not all our own persons? We obviously know the answer to that is a big fat yes and so then why do we spend so much time comparing?
It hit me today as I was working and beginning to compare in my head again that to compare my situation to other people’s situations is truly like comparing apples to oranges. Not only do I not know their entire situation (one can never know the entire situation of someone else and how they feel about it) but we are two completely different people. What is right for one person may not be right for another. Not only that but I can’t see inside, I don’t know how that person feels. I may look at someone’s situation and want it so bad but I have no idea what troubles they may be going through on the inside. And while I hope that they aren’t going through any troubles there are probably things they wish they could change about where they were.
I think if I would spend my energy that I use to compare just having fun and enjoying where I am right now life would be so much different. Thought of the day and definitely something that I am going to work towards. When I find myself comparing I need to take a step back and realize, apples and oranges cannot be compared… nor should they be!